Lawn mower



March 20, 1928.

' A 1,662,849, w. H. DAILEY LAWN MOWR Filed March 16;' 1926 Patented Mar. 20,1928.

UNITED, STATES PATENT OFFICE. j

WILLIAM n; BAILEY, or BROOKLYN, NEW Yonx.

i LAWN MOWEB.

Application led March 16, 1926. Serial No. 95,012.

comparatively inexpensive to manufacture.

A further` object of the invention is the 1o provision of a lawn mower, having improved means for gathering in the relatively tall grass and weeds, thereby to insure the cutting thereof by the cutting blades or knives of the mower and which weed-gathering means can be readily applied to lawn mowers now on the market without any change in the structure thereof.

A further object of the invention is the provision in a lawn mower of means for 2o cleaning or freeing the rotatin blades or knives from the cut particles o grass and weeds, thereby to prevent the clogging of `the f knives thus insuring a more efficient-operation of they machine.

In the drawings accompanying and forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective viewillustrating this improved lawn mower; Figure 2 is a cross sectional view taken on line 2 2, Figure 1; and Figure 3 is a detailed view of one of the gathering-in blades.

Similar characters of reference. indicate corresponding parts in the several figures of the drawings.

Before explaining in detail the present improvement andmode of operation thereof, I desire to have it understood that the in vention is not limited to the details of construction and arrangement of parts which are illustrated in the yaccompanying drawings, since the invention is capable of other embodiments, and lthat the phraseology which I employ is for -the purpose of description and not of limitation.

In the present improved lawn mower, the construction thereof in the main is substantially similar to well known forms of mowers on the market and comprises a pair of flanged wheels 2, carrying the usual disks 3 connected by a rod 4. These disks are provided with a pair of forwardly extending arms 5 carrying the usual stationary knife or blade 6 and a rest or guide roll 7. Also connected to these disks is what is usually termed a cutting reel 8 comprising a rotary shaft 9 suitably connected to the usual gear,-

ing located in the flanged wheels whereby the shaft and blades carriedv thereby are rotated on the pushing of the lawn mower. This reel usually comprises 'a spider consisting of two spaced sets of radially extending arms to which the `knives or cutting blades are. connected. In the present improvement the reel comprises a pair ofspiders 10 and 11,

each consisting ottwo spaced sets of ra-` dially extending arms, the arms 12 of the spider 10 having cutting knives o1? blades 13 connected thereto in the-usual manner and terminating in' hubs 14 carried by the rotary shaft 9, while the arms 15 of the spider 11 also have hubs 16 secured'to the rotating shaft 9 inside of thc radial arms carrying the cutting blades. These arms 15 are vided with gathering-in blades 17 eachlocated between a pair-of cutting blades and cach is provided with a series of teeth 18 located at an angle to the body of the blade all inclined or extending in the same direction. \They are so located that on the down- ,ward movement of thevblades toward the stationary blade theywill gather inthe weeds or tall grass and carry them toward the fixed or stationary blade, so. thatthe cutting blades will quickly sever the same during the rotation of the knives. These gathering-in blades thus act to prevent the mow' er from passing overl and vflattening down the tall grass and weeds as is usually` the case with ordinary mowers, as they not only gather in the weeds and tall grass, but by reason of they inclination of the teeth they carry the weeds and grass to the liXed blade and so hold'them that the rotary knives will quickly and easily sever the same.

I have found in practice that the gather-` ing-in process is much 'more eliiciently accomplished by having the teeth inclined all in the same direction, as there 'is nothing along the outer ends of the teeth to prevent the passage of the weeds or tall rass between the teeth. I have also foun that much better results are-obtained by locating the gathering-in blades, not only between the cutting blades, but equally spaced from each pair of cutting blades, so there is substantially the same space between the gatheringin blade and the precedmg cutting blade as there is between the gathering-in blade and the succeeding cutting blade, in consequence of which the` opportunity for the gathering-in blades to pass over and Anot gather in the weeds and tall grass is lessi `the gathering-in blades upon a separate spider preferabl located inside of the 4spider carrying t ecuttin'g blades without,

however, interfering with the length of the vgathering-in blades, 'which in the construction l shown have substantially the.. same length as the cutting blades and the same'general ogee curvature or form. As a result, also, of this construction, I am able readily tov attach a set of gathering-in blades to the ordinary mower by merely detaching the rotary 'shaft and applying thereto the spiders carrying the gathering-in blades.

Connected to the disks is a rod 19 and this rod carries bristles 2 0, lpreferably formed of iexible wire, and this brush 1s so located that it will wipe or sweep the several blades ofv the mower andfmaintain them clean from the surplus cut grass that usually clogs the rotatingparts of the mower. This brush may be supported in position in any other suitable way, as for instance by being connected to the connecting rod 4-hereinbefore, referred to, but is preferably supported in .the manner herein shown.

. Thus I have provided an improved lawn mower, having a plurality of cutting blades `and ya plurality o alternately located gathering-in blades, each substantially equall spaced from a pair ofcuttin blades, eac gathering-in blade being provided alon its outer edge with a series of relatively c osely arranged teeth all inclined in the same direction, at an angle to the edge of the blade and'so located as quickly to gather in the relatively tall grass and weeds, which would not ordinarily be cut by the cutting blades and each of which gathering-in v saidinvention and described a way blades acts to lay the tall grass and weeds blade, and in which also the surplus cut -grass or weeds will be freed fromthe blades by the brush so that the blades/will be kept clean and free for their normal operation.

or arrangement, it is-inot intended to limit i the invention beyond the terms of the several claims or the requirements of the prior art.

Having thus explained the nature of my ofY constructing and using the same, although without attempting to set forth all of the forms inwhich it may be made, or all offthe modes of its use, claim: v Y

1. In a lawn mower, the combination of a stationary cutting blade, a rotating reel provided with grass cutting blades and a gath? ering-in blade located between and substantiallyvhequally Aspaced from, a pair of cutting'y blades and having a series of teeth having substantially parallel edges and all inclined at the same angle in the same direction from the inner ends thereof.

having substantially parallel edges and all inclined at the same 'angle in the same direction from the inner ends thereof and means for wiping the blades.

3. In-a lawn mower, thecombination of a stationary cutting blade, a rotating reel provided with grass cutting blades and a plurality of gathering-in blades,V each' located between and substantially equally spaced from a pair of. cutting blades and having a lel edges andlall inclined. atthe same angle in the same.direction.from the 'inner ends thereof, and means for wiping the blades and comprising a flexible wire brush.

4. In a lawn mower, the combination of astationary cutting blade, a rotating reel provided with grass cutting blades and a plu'- rality of gathering-in blades, each located between and substantially equally 1 spaced lfrom apair of cutting blades and each having a series of teeth having substantially parallel edges and all inclined -at the same angle and in the same direction from the in ner ends thereof, and means located in a polseries of teeth having'substantially paralsition to Wipe the blades and comprising a\ brush.

5. In a lawn mower the combination of a ner ends thereof. over the fixed or stationary blade, whereby they will be eut by the succeeding 'cutting 6. In a lawn mower, the combinationof a fixed blade, a rotating shaft, a spider carried thereby and comprising two vspaced sets of radially extending arms, cutting blades carried by said arms, an independent spider also carried by said` shaft and' likewise comprising two spaced sets of radially extending arms, tooth-formed gathering-in blades carried by said arms and each located intermediate of 4a pair of cutting blades, the arms carrying the gathering-in blades being located between the .arms 'carrying the cutting blades the gathering-in and cutting blades rotating simultaneously and 'cooperatingA to gather in and cut the grass during the rotation of the rotating. shaft. 7. In a lawn mower, thecombination of a` fixed blade, a rotating'shaft, a spider earried thereby and comprising two. spaced sets of Aradially extending arms cutting blades carried byl said arms, an ind spider also carried by said shaft and likeependent wise comprising two spaced sets of radially extending arms, a series of tooth-formed gathering-in blades carried by said arms and each located intermediate of a.l pair of cutting blades, the arms carrying the gathering-in blades being located between the arms carrying the -cutting blades the gathering-in and cutting blades rotating simultaneously and cooperating to gather in and cut the grass during the rotation of the rotating shaft, and a brush located in position to wipe the several blades.

8. `In a lawn mower, fixed blade, a rotating shaft, a spider carried thereby and comprising two spaced sets of radially extending arms, cutting blades carried bV said arms, an independent spider also carried by said shaft and likewise comprising two spa-eed sets of radially extending arms,

carried by said arms, and each located inter- -med'iate of a pair of cutting blades, the arms the combinationy of a a series of curved tooth-formed blades cated between the arms ycarr ing the cutting blades, andra lbrush locate in position vto wipe the several blades and having a ilexible wire formation.

9. In a lawn mower, the combination of a fixed blade,'a rotating shaft, a spider carried thereby and comprising two spaced sets of radially extending-arms, cutting blades carried by said arms, an independent spider also carried by said shaft and likewise comprising two spaced sets of-radially extending arms, tooth-formed blades carried by said arms and each located intermediate of a pair of cutting blades and substantially `carrying the tooth-formed blades being loequally spaced therefrom and having a series of teeth all inclined at the same angle .in the same direction, and means for wiping the blades during the rotation thereof.

Signed at 15 Park Row,-New York city,

N. Y. this 15th day of March, 1926.

I fWILL IAM H. BAILEY. 

